Movies: Brazilian politics

  • 2022
    Mars One

    Mars One (2022)

    Mars One

    7.42022HD

    The Martins family are optimistic dreamers, quietly leading their lives in the margins of a major Brazilian city following the disappointing inauguration of a far-right extremist president. A lower-middle-class Black family, they feel the strain of t...

    Mars One
  • 2021
    Medusa

    Medusa (2021)

    Medusa

    5.72021HD

    By day, Mari and her friends broadcast their spiritual devotion through pastel pinks and catchy evangelical songs about purity and perfection, and by night they form a vigilante girl gang, prowling the streets in search of sinners who have deviated f...

    Medusa
  • 2022
    The Boys from Brazil: Rise of the Bolsonaros

    The Boys from Brazil: Rise of the Bolsonaros (2022)

    The Boys from Brazil: Rise of the Bolsonaros

    8.52022HD

    This documentary tells of the extraordinary rise of Jair Bolsonaro, from relative obscurity to the ultimate seat of South American power. Told through intimate interviews with some of those closest to him including his eldest son Flávio, former gover...

    The Boys from Brazil: Rise of the Bolsonaros
  • 2024
    Lula

    Lula (2024)

    Lula

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    An intimate and revelatory portrait of one of the world’s most influential political figures, Lula explores the rise, fall and triumphant return of beloved Brazilian leader Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva, chronicling his extraordinary journey in 2022 to...

    Lula
  • 2019
    Letter Beyond the Walls

    Letter Beyond the Walls (2019)

    Letter Beyond the Walls

    8.22019HD

    Letter Beyond the Walls reconstructs the trajectory of HIV and AIDS with a focus on Brazil, through interviews with doctors, activists, patients and other actors, in addition to extensive archival material. From the initial panic to awareness campaig...

    Letter Beyond the Walls
  • 2007
    Condor

    Condor (2007)

    Condor

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    Operation Condor was a secret agreement between the military dictatorships of the Southern Cone in the 1970s, with the knowledge of the CIA. These governments to shared information and violently repressed suspected left-wing subversives....

    Condor
  • 1966
    Maranhão 66

    Maranhão 66 (1966)

    Maranhão 66

    6.81966HD

    A report on Sarney's inauguration as the governor of the Maranhão state. His promises are heard alongside images of the grim reality....

    Maranhão 66
  • 2002
    JK – O Menino que Sonhou um País

    JK – O Menino que Sonhou um País (2002)

    JK – O Menino que Sonhou um País

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    Built as a letter to JK in his centenary, the film shows what remained in the memory of Brazilians 26 years after his passing in a car accident in August 1976....

    JK – O Menino que Sonhou um País
  • 2023
    The Battle

    The Battle (2023)

    The Battle

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    21 sequence shots depict moments in a defining night of the Battle of Rua Maria Antônia, in October 1968, from the point of view of the students and professors of the Left-wing Student Movement, in the Philosophy Faculty building of USP....

    The Battle
  • 2016
    Jaime Lerner - Uma História de Sonhos

    Jaime Lerner - Uma História de Sonhos (2016)

    Jaime Lerner - Uma História de Sonhos

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    Jaime Lerner - Uma História de Sonhos
  • 2022
    Secret Friend

    Secret Friend (2022)

    Secret Friend

    7.82022HD

    In 2019, the leakage of messages exchanged by authorities in Brazil undermines the credibility of Operation Lava Jato. A group of journalists follows the unfolding of the case, in a sequence of crises that puts Brazilian democracy at risk....

    Secret Friend
  • 2001
    Milton Santos, Pensador do Brasil

    Milton Santos, Pensador do Brasil (2001)

    Milton Santos, Pensador do Brasil

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    The interview, held on January 4, 2001, was the last given by Professor Milton Santos, who died from cancer on June 24 of the same year. The geographer is gone, but his thoughts remains. Its political and cultural ideals inspire the debate on Brazili...

    Milton Santos, Pensador do Brasil
  • 2017
    Stories Our Cinema Did (Not) Tell

    Stories Our Cinema Did (Not) Tell (2017)

    Stories Our Cinema Did (Not) Tell

    6.22017HD

    Filled with raunchy laughs, this documentary compiles outrageous scenes from sex-comedies that shaped Brazil's "pornochanchada" boom of the 1970s....

    Stories Our Cinema Did (Not) Tell
  • 2018
    O Banquete

    O Banquete (2018)

    O Banquete

    6.32018HD

    An elegant dinner, which takes place in real time, brings together a group of intellectuals in the early 90s in São Paulo, Brazil: the hosts are the editor of the country's top news magazine and her husband, the company's lawyer, and the occasion is ...

    O Banquete
  • 2019
    Flux014: os rolês da quebrada

    Flux014: os rolês da quebrada (2019)

    Flux014: os rolês da quebrada

    4.52019HD

    A city that has been living for two years with the law that prohibits "clandestine parties". A youth who, when reunited, risks receiving a police raid on their doorstep, in the street, in the park or in the square. Spatial segregation, denial of the ...

    Flux014: os rolês da quebrada
  • 2023
    Xondaros - Guarani Resistance

    Xondaros - Guarani Resistance (2023)

    Xondaros - Guarani Resistance

    02023HD

    The 6 Guarani villages of Jaraguá, in São Paulo, fight for land rights, for human rights and for the preservation of nature. They suffer from the proximity to the city, which brings lack of resources, pollution of rivers and springs, racism, police v...

    Xondaros - Guarani Resistance
  • 2024
    Brizola, Anotações para uma História

    Brizola, Anotações para uma História (2024)

    Brizola, Anotações para uma História

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    Brizola, Anotações para uma História
  • 2021
    Um Documentário Brasileiro

    Um Documentário Brasileiro (2021)

    Um Documentário Brasileiro

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    Um Documentário Brasileiro
  • 2010
    Inácio Garapa, Um Matuto Sonhador

    Inácio Garapa, Um Matuto Sonhador (2010)

    Inácio Garapa, Um Matuto Sonhador

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    Inácio Garapa, Um Matuto Sonhador
  • 2021
    Maria Quitéria Honra e Glória

    Maria Quitéria Honra e Glória (2021)

    Maria Quitéria Honra e Glória

    22021HD

    While trying to take the enemy's trench, soldier Medeiros remembers his peaceful childhood in the licuri site when everyone knew him by his baptismal name, Maria Quitéria de Jesus....

    Maria Quitéria Honra e Glória